The good news is, contrary to the fears of some doomsayers (also
generally people who worked for newspapers), the world has never
been better informed. Thanks to blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Google, two billion online fact-checkers, and
some amazing online news sites—including some run by
newspapers—we now know more faster than at any time in history,
by a mile.

And, thankfully, we no longer have to rely on the judgment (and
worldview) of a handful of super-powerful gatekeepers to decide
what we can and can't know.